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Old 10-23-2005, 05:03 PM
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...re your comment about missing Sis's lyrics -

When I was making up that quiz I was listening to an MP3 file of "Big Bad John" sung by Jimmy Dean, and the rhythm of the song was reminding me of another song that I've been trying for three days to remember. Finally did.

Remember this Kingston Trio favorite, also from the sixties?



He rode easy in the saddle, he was tall and lean
And at first ya thought nothin? but a streak of mean
Could make a man look so downright strong
But one look in his eyes and ya knowed ya was wrong.

He was a mountain of a man and I want ya to know
He could preach hot hell in the freezin? snow.
He carried a bible in a canvas sack
The folks just called him the Reverend Mr. Black.

He was poor as a beggar but he rode like a king
And sometimes in the evenin? I could hear him sing:

I got to walk that lonesome valley
I got to walk it by myself
for nobody else can walk it for me
I got to walk it by myself.

If ever I could have thought this man in black
Was soft, or had any yellow up his back
I gave that notion up the day
A lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray.

Yeah, he kicked open the meetin? house door
And he cussed everybody up and down the floor
And then when things got quiet in the place
He walked up and cussed in the preacher?s face.

He hit that reverend like the kick of a mule
And to my way of thinkin? it took a pure fool
To turn the other cheek to that lumberjack
But that?s what he did, the Reverend Mr. Black.

He stood like a rock, a man among men
Then he let that lumberjack hit him again
And then with a voice as kind as could be
He cut him down like a big oak tree when he said:

You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it by yourself
for nobody else can walk it for you
You got to walk it by yourself.

It?s been many years since we had to part
And I guess I learned his ways by heart
I can still hear his sermons ring
Down in the valley where he used to sing.

I followed him, yes sir, and I don?t regret it
And I hope that I?ll always be a credit
To his memory 'cause I want ya to understand...
The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man.

You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it by yourself
for nobody else can walk it for you
You got to walk it by yourself.
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